I don't think I managed to convey in the title what I meant, so let me elaborate.
Have you ever been stuck in a game, unable to figure out the solution to a puzzle, or what you should do next? Finally asking your friend, consulting a walkthrough, or stumbling upon the correct answer by accident, only to feel absolutely foolish, since the answer is something so obvious you should have figured out, but for some reason completely overlooked?
Or had trouble with the fighting system the whole game, only to figure out you have one attack/function that just instakills everything in sight?
I can think of a few times.
In Prince of Persia: Sands of time, there is a part where you have spikes on the floor, and need to get on the ladder hanging from the ceiling. No matter how I tried, I didn't manage to jump on it, I always ended up on the wrong side of the ladder, and couldn't figure out how to jump on the other side.
And then, I finally accidentally noticed you could simply turn on the ladder after you jumped on it.
Games with a lot of puzzles in them(especially older adventure games) have, of course a lot of moments like these, (as well as the complete opposite, something that makes you yell "How was I supposed to figure THAT out!!!?) but one thing that I can clearly recall is the puzzle in the original Resident Evil, where you need the two emblems. You have the two books that clearly hint at them, and yet I couldn't figure out what to do with them.
I was stuck for so long in that one spot, since back then I couldn't just google for walkthroughs, before finally figuring out you needed to OPEN the books by examining them, to find the things inside of them...
So, share your stories of moments in games where you just feel stupid for not figuring the most obvious things out.
Have you ever been stuck in a game, unable to figure out the solution to a puzzle, or what you should do next? Finally asking your friend, consulting a walkthrough, or stumbling upon the correct answer by accident, only to feel absolutely foolish, since the answer is something so obvious you should have figured out, but for some reason completely overlooked?
Or had trouble with the fighting system the whole game, only to figure out you have one attack/function that just instakills everything in sight?
I can think of a few times.
In Prince of Persia: Sands of time, there is a part where you have spikes on the floor, and need to get on the ladder hanging from the ceiling. No matter how I tried, I didn't manage to jump on it, I always ended up on the wrong side of the ladder, and couldn't figure out how to jump on the other side.
And then, I finally accidentally noticed you could simply turn on the ladder after you jumped on it.
Games with a lot of puzzles in them(especially older adventure games) have, of course a lot of moments like these, (as well as the complete opposite, something that makes you yell "How was I supposed to figure THAT out!!!?) but one thing that I can clearly recall is the puzzle in the original Resident Evil, where you need the two emblems. You have the two books that clearly hint at them, and yet I couldn't figure out what to do with them.
I was stuck for so long in that one spot, since back then I couldn't just google for walkthroughs, before finally figuring out you needed to OPEN the books by examining them, to find the things inside of them...
So, share your stories of moments in games where you just feel stupid for not figuring the most obvious things out.